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I am surprised to see HBJ so tense and nervous. AY played well and deserved to win. But the number of unforced errors committed by HBJ were too many. I hope they will move onto the circuit and face each other again. It will be interesting to watch.

It's all over for Team INA. No Gold yet again this year (sigh) and anti-climax for Rosyita Eka Putri Sari....being in 2 Finals and losing to Chen Qingchen in both matches. As expected, the CHN GD pair Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan is too powerful for the INA pair and won easily 21-11, 21-14.

So, 4 Golds for Team CHN (including the Mixed Team Gold), 1 to JPN and another one to be contested between JPN and THA.

This kid Lin Guipu is quite entertaining to watch, from the few videos I've seen of him he is scarily quick and aggressive almost to a fault (i.e. becomes too predictable). More impressively, he won at the age of 16, if his reported birth date of April 21, 1997 is correct. Let's hope that his coaches can imbue variation in his game without turning his style into a boring, defensive pusher one like Chen Jin in his later years or Chen Long. Hopefully he won't burn out like some other past world junior champions did. I look forward to more great things from him, perhaps contending for the gold medal at the 2020 or 2024 Olympics? We'll see.

It's all over for Team INA. No Gold yet again this year (sigh) and anti-climax for Rosyita Eka Putri Sari....being in 2 Finals and losing to Chen Qingchen in both matches. As expected, the CHN GD pair Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan is too powerful for the INA pair and won easily 21-11, 21-14.

Two years in a row INA juniors failed to bag gold, 3 silvers (WD, XD, team event) and 2 bronzes (MS, MD) this time, overall result is better than last year.

Lin Guipu

Originally Posted by iyuaeo

This kid Lin Guipu is quite entertaining to watch, from the few videos I've seen of him he is scarily quick and aggressive almost to a fault (i.e. becomes too predictable). More impressively, he won at the age of 16, if his reported birth date of April 21, 1997 is correct. Let's hope that his coaches can imbue variation in his game without turning his style into a boring, defensive pusher one like Chen Jin in his later years or Chen Long. Hopefully he won't burn out like some other past world junior champions did. I look forward to more great things from him, perhaps contending for the gold medal at the 2020 or 2024 Olympics? We'll see.

I have seen the videos too and also hope for the same . If only they (Lin and the other youngsters in WJC 2014 et al) can become another Taufik, elegance and guile or LCW and L Dan speed,power and defence and lastly P Gade elegance and consistency. These four personalities produced exciting and memorable badminton and brought it onto the world stage.
India and Japan have got some interesting young players and together with the others from all over the world I hope these young players can excite the tournaments with a few upsets. I think BWF should introduce automatic entry ala the Masters and The Open where the champions of the major junior competitions get into the first round of some GPG or SS competitions.This may improve their experience and abilities.